PayPal Seamless Checkout (Checkout Champ)

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Last updated: Oct 04, 2023 by Tom Knuth
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Authorization trials (such as Hold Trial Charge, Authorize and Void, etc.) are not supported through PayPal Seamless Checkout

“Security error: Security header is not valid” means you are using sandbox credentials against the live PayPal endpoint.

This PayPal integration uses Express Checkout.

Step 1: Login and navigate to the funnel on which to add PayPal

Step 2:Click the Settings button on the top left to open the funnel settings

Step 3: Open the Payments section

Step 4: Add a new PayPal gateway or select an existing PayPal gateway

Note: you can also select a WithReach gateway here. Frauidnet, venmo, and pay later are not valid on WithReach.

Step 4-1: Adding New PayPal account

 

Enter a Title and optionally add brandName.

Click “Save & Continue” when you are finished with the PayPal configuration.

Step 5: Save and Continue

Step 6: Edit Checkout page and add PayPal button

There are 2 PayPal buttons from which to choose. The difference is style only. You can add multiple PayPal buttons to a page.

Step 6-1(button): Customize size of button by clicking on the button and dragging the highlighted corners or use Dimensions tab for advanced edits.

 

Radio

 

Step 6-1(radio): Add a radio button to the page. You may design this to your preference.

 

Step 6-2(radio): Select the radio button and change the settings so the Name is “payment_method”. This may also be used with the payment toggler by setting the name to “fk-payment-option-toggler“. Then set the Value of the radio button to the name of the pay source in all caps (CREDITCARD, PAYPAL, etc).

 

Step 7: Save the page and exit the page builder

Step 8: On the arrow leaving the checkout page, choose the PayPal button(s) for navigation.

 

Step 9: Publish the funnel. You’re done and ready to test!

Recurring Billing without Reference Transactions enabled

Upsells without Reference Transactions enabled

If you cannot enable Reference Transactions on your PayPal account, you can still use PayPal for upsells by redirecting the customer back to PayPal for each upsell.

CheckoutChamp knows if the customer paid with a credit card or PayPal on the initial sale and will process with the same payment method on the upsell pages. This means you don’t need to design your upsell pages any differently than they already are. Using your existing “Yes” button on the upsell pages, a PayPal customer will redirect to PayPal if the PayPal gateway added into CheckoutChamp does not have Reference Transactions enabled.